Andersen's Fairy Tales, The False Collar, sentence 14
When one is as handsome as you,” said the collar, “that is occasion enough.”
Who acts: one · What happens: be, say · To what, where: collar, occasion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, The False Collar. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 handsome | mark |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 handsome | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 handsome | cop |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 handsome | advmod |
| 5 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | advcl |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 handsome | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 handsome | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 handsome | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 collar | det |
| 12 | collar | collar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 occasion | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 occasion | punct |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 occasion | det |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 occasion | cop |
| 17 | occasion | occasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 collar | appos |
| 18 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 17 occasion | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 occasion | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 occasion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | one | as you; handsome property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the collar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent collar=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that occasion | enough property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Andersen's Fairy Tales» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 1597 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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